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Google announces additional ways to keep your data secure
In times when data breaches and account hacking is on an indefinite rise, Google has come up with some welcome additions to its suite of security...
Over 770 million emails and 21 million passwords exposed in fresh data breach
Over the past year, we’ve grown accustomed to hacks and data breaches on the internet. Now we’re less than a month into 2019, and...
‘HackerGiraffe’ hacks into Google chromecasts, exposing a bug that has existed for over 5 years
Hackers take control of over thousands of Chromecast streaming devices, exposing the vulnerability of the routers. The hackers – who go by the...
Child porn sharing WhatsApp groups expose present social media’s inefficient moderating systems
In wake of Tech Crunch’s recent report on the issue of child porn being circulated on WhatsApp, Google made efforts to take down the third...
Government requests to Apple saw a 9%rise globally, compared to previous year
Earlier on Monday, Apple Inc. published their bi-annual Transparency Report for the first half of this year on their website. In the report, they...
India’s proposed Data Protection Bill bans cross-border transfer of personal data
There’s more information on India’s new, proposed data protection bill, that is said to come anytime now. The info, reported by Times of...
Facebook says it only provided access to user data after explicit permission
The New York Times has once again called out Facebook Inc. regarding their breach of user data access. This has been an ongoining situation for over...
Despite global outrage, Huawei gets invited to 5G trials in India
All of the global telecom powerhouses — the US, Australia, New Zealand among others — are voicing united concerns against Huawei over its...
Hackers find a way to deliver commands to malware via memes on Twitter
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new form of virus that could pull valuable data from your desktops by using commands masked in memes on...
A Facebook Photo API bug exposed unposted photos of over 6.8 Million users to third-party apps
More data breach news folks. And once again, as has been the case quite often in past few months, the platform making users vulnerable is...
Quora says data of 100 Million users compromised
Yet another incident of a massive data breach has come up, and the affected platform is Quora this time. In a blog post penned by Quora CEO Adam...
Amazon thumped by a major data breach just as it gears up for Black Friday
Just as Amazon geared up for the busiest period of sales in the year, they were thumped by a mysterious data breach. This data breach comes just two...
Income, immigration, and tax data stolen in massive Healthcare.gov breach
In a massive breach of data, hackers targeted Healthcare.gov applications and made off with data associated with thousands of people, by breaking...
Microsoft’s latest Windows patch protects you from NSA’s hacking tools
This is actually course correction. Why you ask ? Well, Microsoft had previously declined to release fixes for three specific security patches, which...
Now, even hovering over a link in Microsoft PowerPoint can infect your PC with malware
We’re all well acquainted with Microsoft PowerPoint, which is one of the most widely employed presentation software. The same is now said to be...
New NTFS exploit allows any website to hang or crash Windows 7/Windows 8 machines
After the widespread WannaCry ransomware attacks earlier last week, Microsoft seems to be staring at another exploit right around the curb. This...
Newly discovered flaw in networking software can potentially lead to another WannaCry-like attack
While organizations are still reeling from the effects of the widespread WannaCry ransomware attack, security researchers have now discovered an...
North Korea ‘highly likely’ to be behind WannaCry ransomware attacks, says Symantec
Symantec Corp, the cyber security expert on Monday said that the WannaCry ransomware attacks which occurred earlier this month were “highly...
Shadow Brokers threaten to sell NSA-leaked hacking tools each month, starting in June
Shadow Brokers, the organization responsible for leaking stolen NSA hacking tools back in March 2017, is back and has posted an update message on...
WannaCry ransomware attack code said to have links to North Korea: Kaspersky Lab
Over the weekend, the ‘WannaCry‘ ransomware attack reeked havoc over the cyber security practices of nearly 150 countries across the...